3 Open your ears, and come to me!Listen so that you may live!I will make an everlasting promise to you—the blessings I promised to David.
4 I made him a witness to people,a leader and a commander for people.
5 You will summon a nation that you don’t know,and a nation that doesn’t know you will run to youbecause of the Lord your God,because of the Holy One of Israel.He has honored you.”
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found.Call on him while he is near.
7 Let wicked people abandon their ways.Let evil people abandon their thoughts.Let them return to the Lord,and he will show compassion to them.Let them return to our God,because he will freely forgive them.
8 “My thoughts are not your thoughts,and my ways are not your ways,” declares the Lord.
9 “Just as the heavens are higher than the earth,so my ways are higher than your ways,and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts.”